"Chick Beer."

[Imakewort]

PINK BEER !! PINK BEER!! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING PINK BEER !!!!!!

[BarefootLion]

Damn I saw pink beer and laughed. I actually have one on tap right now, wit with raspberries and blueberries..very pink. But you said no fruit.

[thatguy314]

I seem to recall someone using beets......

You got me there. But it did not really get it red. Kind of a dark red hue. Base beer was an english pale ale but ended up looking more like a too dark irish red ale. I don't think you could get it to stop at just a nice pink without getting it to dark.

Not sure how to get a pink color without adding some sort of fruit like cherries or pomegranate. Not even sure the red rice I mentioned will work.

Wayne

Magic hat used beets in one of their beers as the only coloring agent and it turned bright red. I'm not sure how they got that kind of color extract, but it was colorful. Beets didn't really do much for flavor. If you check their website it's only pale malt and sugar.




I've seen someone use pink peppercorns in a beer. Added some color, but a lot of flavor. Spicy and pink-candy-like. I think the amount you'd need for color would be too much. But if you combined them with another coloring agent (e.g., beets or thai rice) and you might have a flavorful pink beer that looks and tastes pink.

[aleguy]

eh, It doesn't have to be hot pink. just pink. I'm not against using ingredients other than grain in beer. But in this case I think the color really does have to come from the grains alone, otherwise it's not a new style, just a pink beer. I have no doubt it can be done and i intend to start experimenting as soon as my schedule allows. I have gotten some flack on other forums about not providing any other style guidelines than color. But i think the demands of getting pink beer from grain will tend to determine the flavor of the beer and any other demands at this point would tend to take away from the emergence of this as a new style of beer in its own right.
Obviously, if I'm the only person who ever brews it, it's not a new style, just an oddity. As far as Chick Beer is concerned, they seem to have dropped the idea of artificially coloring it. But I still think it's a potentially great new style of beer. I'm thinking it will have to be an ale in order to get the color, but I'm sure there are people out there who will prove me wrong on that too. Maybe once i prove it can be done, it will catch on. Especially since it will taste so awesome once i get my recipe finalized. at my time scale that means a couple of years at least, since I will not be dropping my other brewing activities to pursue this. the first few batches will be purely experimental and may not be drinkable.

[alan_marks]

Dude, why?

If you buy this, you've just bought into the whole marketing machine that global brewers are sucking people into on a daily basis. Now do you REALLY think that "chicks" are going to "be into" this? In my experience they have much better bullshit detectors than most guys have...

Just sayin,
Alan

[aleguy]

Alan, This really isn't about making a chick beer. It was initially in response to try to kill one of those bullshit marketing ploys. If all I wanted was to brew a pink beer to appeal to women, I would just use cherry puree or something. How it started is now irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. The idea of being on the cutting edge of developing a whole new beer style is what is driving me now. Completely new styles come around maybe once in a century, if that. Right now is probably the best time in history to be a brewer. We have access to malts and hops that just plain never existed before. That's what makes it possible to brew a beer like this. It wouldn't have been possible to even think about it just ten short years ago. But the access we have to specialty malts today is unparalleled in history.

[snowcapt]

I fart in your general direction...

[CPADRE]

Widmer had a Goze on tap at there Brewpub this summer. Salty and not too big. I think some ladies could wrap their lips around that